The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-05-18
PASTOR AND PEOPLE.

with, the wife OF the Bishop OF Georgia.
The Bishop of Tennessee is to sail for
Europe May IS, to be absent several
months.
There are now in the Presbyterian church
in Ireland more than $50 congregations,
with 626 ministers and over 102, 900 COM
municants.
The Hartford Religious Herald says an
old Litchfield deacon used to have this pet
phrase: "When, o Lord, the clouds OF the
valley shall fall on this dilapidsted FORM"
Western Plowman: Just so long as the
pitcher of a base ball club gets $1,000 a
year, and a preacher a scant 5000, Just so
long will there be good pitching and poor
preaching.
There are LOCO more ministers of the
gospel in London than there are ordained
missionaries in all parts of the heather
and Mohammedan world, the number be-
ing 1900 and 5000 respectively.
During the past six months the special
representative of the Lutheran Board of
Church Extension has secured warranty
deeds for fifty church sites in new and
growing towns in Kansas and Nebraska.
Pere Hyacinthe is making arrangements
to preach in the Protestant church in the
Avenue Alma, Paris. 1t is expected that
the event will mark the final severance
of his connection with the Roman church.
Cardinal Taschereau, of Canada, WAC
has just returned from Rome. still adj
heres to his opposition the Knights of
Labor. The views of Cardinal Gibbons he
believes to be contrary to the doctrines OF
the church.
The Young Mems Christian Association
in the city of London recently celebrated
its forty third anniversary. 1t has eighteen
hundred members. There is a branch at
Exeter Hall, and there are sixty-four kim
bred associations in various parts Of Lon
don.
Since the Board of Church Extension of
the Methodist Episcopal Church (North)
began its work, in the year 1865. it has
helped to build 5,S05 churches-more than
half OF the entire increase of churches
since this work began. It has collected
and disbursed nearly 50 100000.
The Presbyterians are making active
preparations for the founding of tneo-
| logical seminary at Ann Arbor, Mich. A
society has been organized to that end, and
q wealthy lady has decided them one OF the
best locations in the city for a site, beside
| giving them in her will a fine house and
lot adjoining.
A well known retail merchant was in a
| bad humor one Monday morning A friend
preaching Yesterday did not do you much
| ''My pastor preached against the follies of
| fashionable dress, and most of the ladies of
| the congregation are my customers"
Protestants in Russia, according to fresh
| and official statistics, number is. 243. 5S7
persons, or GAP per cent. of the whole
population; the Catholics, 1921 ,634, or
| 80 81 per cent; those belonging to other
christian denominations, 5000, or 3 per
cent; Jews, 3G6543, or Is per cent; 155
/ confessing other religions, and 3 529 max
ing no statement of their religious views.
Miss Julia E. Foneret was installed as
deaconess in the st. George Episcopal
| Church, in New York, recently by Bishop
| Potter. She is the first deaconess admit
ted to the church in 400 years, and the first
| ever created in America. Miss Foneret is
| of Canadian birth, trained nurse, and for
years has been connected with the mission
| work of st. Georges Church.
The difficulty of distributing Sunday
school library books in way to cause the
least interruption to the classes is nearly as
! vexing a problem as how to dispose of pull
pit notices satisfactorily. One school in
the western part of Massachusetts is trying
the experiment of opening the library for
two hours on Saturday afternoons for the
change of books. The result of the lnno-
walton is 10 be watched with interest by
Sunday-school librarians.
| DlCh-Alu luOcc ucdkucuS
what think elephants and COWS and things
is sacredP Little Dot-Yes; why don't
they have sacred eagle like we have? It's
a good deal nicer. Eagles amt sacred (;
they is only patriotic. like the Fourth of
July, that's all" "Yes, they is sacred,
too" They amt" "Ohl You bad boy,
you. In our church we have great big
eagle with its wings out, and the ministers
put the Bible on it; so there, now."
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gregationalist says, on Easter Sunday. An
old LADY watched the services through with
breatbless interest, and then turning to a
stranger, said: 1.-THE choir did well, didn't
they?' "Excellently," was the reply !;
whereat the faithful observer OF the pro-
ceedings remal ked dramatically: There
was S. bet up that they'd break down."
Will unregenerate workings be betting
next on the next minister?
Missionary Farrar has planted nineteen
Sunday-schools in the Cumberland Mount
aims OF Tennessee. In most of these places
there has never been a Sunday-school. The
people have taken hold of them with en-
thusiasm. One woman who is a superln-
tendent walks ten miles every Sunday to
babes in their arms from two to four miles
in order to be present. The Sunday-school
hour is the chief point OF interest to them
all in the week.
The Young Peoples Society OF Christian
Endeavor, which was organized few years
ago in Portland, Me-, has been attended
with remarkable growth. In 1881 it had
sixty members; in 1886 it reported 1000
members and 1000 organizations scattered
through thirty-fve States and Territories,
and some lands beyond the sea. 1t claims
to occupy ga middle ground between the
Sunday school and church-not independ-
ent of either, but in a wise manner com.
bining the two" 1t is a training school for
young christians.
The committee of the Presbyterian
Church of England are preparinga revision
of the Confession of Faith, to be submitted
at the coming meeting of the synod. 1t is
reported that the changes recommended
will amount to a reconstruction of the
creed. and will be sure to lead to profound
agitation among the Presbyterians through
out the world. A similar movement for
the revision of the standards of the Free
Church of Scotland has been postponed, to
be resumed after the English synod has
finished its deliberations upon the COM
mittee's report.
Where are the Milwaukee missionaries
who labor among the young men2 The
local reports tell of two young business
men in positions of trust who have gone
wrong, and similar stories Of embezzle-
ment have been unusually frequent in Mil
waukee of late. Often the responsibility
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